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System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. Realm

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Name

Description

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Score	5.23
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Website

www.ehcache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

origodb.com

realm.io

Technical documentation

www.ehcache.org/documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

origodb.com/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Robert Friberg et al

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2009

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

JCache

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Domain Events

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

yes

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